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Who is the bigger concern for 2026: Aaron Nola or Andrew Painter?
Yesterday, Ethan asked you to put on a scale your confidence level in each of the Phillies starting pitchers. Today, we’re going to take that one step further and discuss the two pitchers who, without even looking at those replies, one can surmise made up the consensus on the lower end of the confidence scale. […]
Phillies news: Brandon Marsh, prospects, Tarik Skubal
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Southpaw Dominates North of the Border: Phillies 5, Blue Jays 2
Some years ago, I learned that Canada has a fast food chain known as New York Fries. I am from New York, and I do not know of any particular connection between that fair city (state? I assume it’s named for the city?) and fries. I have always been somewhat baffled by this. Sort of […]
Gamethread 6/8: Phillies at Blue Jays
Here are the lineups for game 1 in Toronto. Let’s discuss. For the Phillies: For the Blue Jays:
Opposition research: Jeff Hoffman
Phillies fans can be complicated. As we saw this past offseason, “running it back” with players who have failed in previous seasons – particularly the playoffs – is not a popular strategy. On the other hand, there was a lot of angst about the team allowing Jeff Hoffman to leave as a free agent after […]
Three up, three down: week of June 1-7
Alright, that is how the team should be playing at home. Going 5-1 against some good competition was a nice salve for the home issues they have had and before you say the Padres and White Sox aren’t good competition, they were both over .500 coming into this week. The bats woke up a bit […]
Phillies on the Pharm: 6/8/2026
It was a day of completing series for the minor league teams. How did the team’s youngsters do? Rochester 7, Lehigh Valley 6 Part of a looming issue facing the big league team right now is depth. What if there was a major injury of some kind, particularly to the pitching staff? Is there someone […]
Give your confidence level in each pitcher in the rotation
Let’s say that you had to set up a playoff rotation. We all know what the first two options would be as Cristopher Sanchez and Zack Wheeler have shown again they are the best 1-2 punch in the game right now and it really isn’t that close. However, there would have to be someone else […]
Phillies news: Andrew Painter, Brad Keller, Max Kepler
The playoff odds are climbing for the Phillies. They’re over 70% on Fangraphs, 52% on Baseball Reference and over 80% on Baseball Prospectus. They’ve decided to not play like garbage at home, which makes me think this is actually something. Impressive considering how bad it was a little over a month ago. On to the […]
Overcoming Aaron: Phillies 9, White Sox 5
The series against the White Sox was not a strong one for the Phillies’ starting rotation. All three of their starters struggled, including Aaron Nola on Sunday. Fortunately, the Phillies’ lineup – particularly Brandon Marsh – did not struggle. For the second time in three days, the offense was able to overcome shaky pitching and […]
Gamethread 6/7: Phillies vs White Sox
The Phillies and White Sox have split the first two games of their three-game set, and the series winner will be decided on Sunday afternoon at Citizens Bank Park. The Phillies will give the ball to Aaron Nola. After a rough start to the season, the veteran righthander has pitched better of late, allowing four […]
Compared to Atlanta, the Phillies are on the Outside Looking…Outside?
Hello, and welcome to the MLB Team Dating Game! Today we’ve got two highly eligible MLBachelors, two clubs looking for their Special Somefan. Here’s how it works: we’ll give you some information about the teams, and you’ll pick the club you want to go on a date with. Only after you choose do you find […]
Phillies on the Pharm: 6/7/2026
It wasn’t exactly the type of night to brag about the hitting prospects that are on the farm for the Phillies, while two injuries occurred that are both something the team is going to want to be careful with in the coming days. Let’s see how the kids did. Lehigh Valley 3, Rochester 2 Alan […]
Should Andrew Painter make his next start?
Disappointing is probably the best way to categorize Andrew Painter’s season. No one really expected ace-hood from him straight out of the gate, but he has struggled this year. Like any other pitcher, he’s exchanged good starts with poor ones, but those poor ones are far too often. His last five starts have shown this […]
Phillies news: Trea Turner, Jhoan Duran, Tarik Skubal
That loss is the perfect embodiment of a loss. Everything kind of stunk, so they just move on. On to the link. Phillies news: MLB news:
One of Don Mattingly’s Losses as Phillies Interim Manager: White Sox 6 Phillies 3
Andrew Painter’s rocky rookie season was beginning to turn a corner in the middle of May when he put together a strong three-start stretch between the Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, and Cleveland Guardians. He finished six innings in two of those starts and allowed two runs or less in all three. He then met […]
Gamethread 6/6: White Sox at Phillies
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The New Orion Kerkering
Does anyone reading this need any reminders about how the NLDS ended in 2025? Didn’t think so. Orion Kerkering’s 2025 season was disappointing after a very good 2024 where he seemed primed for a future late-inning role. The Phillies let Jeff Hoffman walk for Jordan Romano with the idea that Kerkering would fill a bigger […]
Phillies All-Star One and Dones: The 1980s Part 1
In honor of the Philadelphia Phillies playing host to the 2026 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Citizens Bank Park, we here at The Good Phight are launching a yearlong series that focuses on the history of the Phillies and the All-Star Game. Check back regularly for posts about the Phillies participation (or lack thereof) in […]
Phillies on the Pharm: 6/6/2026
Home runs proved costly for two of the Phillies’ affiliates on Friday night, but Lehigh Valley and Clearwater prevailed thanks to some strong pitching performances. The Threshers’ win was their sixth in a row. Lehigh Valley 4, Rochester 2 Bryse Wilson allowed just one hit and struck out five across four scoreless innings for the […]
Will the Phillies be a playoff team?
I’m taking today’s question of the day directly from The Feed post in which it originated: Go and vote!
Phillies news: Adolis Garcia, Cristopher Sanchez, Max Muncy
What is the bare minimum you are expecting from Adolis Garcia the rest of this season? My hopes of his breaking out at any point have effectively been dashed by his poor play on the field, but I still reserve hope that he can at least be a threat in the box at any given […]
Spot him, got him: Phillies 8, White Sox 6
When the Phillies have won this season, it’s largely been on the back of their pitching staff. But on Friday night, it was the offense that carried the way, as they overcame a shaky start by Jesus Luzardo to top the White Sox 8-6. Luzardo’s off night began with two outs in the second. He […]
Might be time to switch the lineup again
The offense the Phillies have been trotting out this season has been putrid at worst, average at best. You know this is something that can be state with almost factual intent when people get excited about the team scoring six runs on Wednesday. There have been a few spurts here and there of competence, most […]
Opposition research: Seranthony Dominguez
Before the season, it was expected that the Chicago White Sox wouldn’t have many save opportunities for their relievers to convert. They were coming off three straight 100+ loss campaigns, including a 41-121 bottoming out in 2024. But the Sox have been one of the biggest surprises this season, checking in at 33-29, good for […]
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